How should a stigmatized home be handled afterward? Is clearing its contents or hiring someone to live there enough?

Clearing belongings and cleaning a stigmatized home does not complete the process. The program explained that if someone died inside, the deceased should first be summoned and guided away for deliverance, followed by clearing the belongings. Simply discarding things and redecorating does not resolve the problem if the soul remains trapped there. Homes where people died in fires are generally also called stigmatized and likewise need proper deliverance so the souls can rest. Sheng Zhen Men's approach is first to guide sha energy away and then cleanse the home for the effect to appear. The first such case followed this sequence: communicate with the departed and ask the Bodhisattva to guide them before beginning home cleansing.

Discussing that first case, the program described arriving respectfully, asking deities and Buddhas to help, and inviting the deceased into dialogue in the hope of guiding them somewhere better with Guanyin Bodhisattva. A small altar was therefore established on site for deliverance. Reflecting afterward, they said the sha and negative energy no longer remained after cleansing. The presence of deities and their spiritual soldiers had also adjusted the energetic field.

Handling such a home differs from ordinary cleansing. The program said an ordinary home's unfavorable field may improve with cleansing alone, whereas a stigmatized property also requires deliverance, invoking deities, and establishing an altar. Practitioners first need to understand the deceased person's regrets and resentment, request help from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and guide them onward as promptly as possible. The person needs to understand they have died and release attachment before being led away. Someone described teams of three, four, or five rather than only one or two people, establishing an altar, negotiating, asking the Bodhisattva to guide the departed, and finally cleansing everything again so future residents do not feel they are in a haunted house. This takes considerable work and sufficient divine strength. Another episode said suicide properties involving grievances and emotional entanglements require greater effort and are harder to handle, while ordinary ghosts in homes usually respond fairly smoothly to divine assistance and communication. They therefore recommended addressing a stigmatized home with the ability to request divine help.

Not every property receives this treatment in practice. In the first rental case, the landlord had not asked another practitioner for deliverance or guidance, and the deceased person's family did not want to summon the soul or collect belongings. The landlord later had a cleaning company throw everything away. Another discussion said that because the family would not deal with it and no summoning had taken place, they knew upon arrival that the deceased remained in the home. Some landlords avoid the expense, assuming cleaning is enough, or hire a company merely to discard personal effects. Some teachers may think cleansing incense, the Golden Light Mantra, and walking through are sufficient. But someone on the program said that without proper communication, negotiation, and deliverance, the soul can remain even when you think the work is finished. Master Shengyuan hoped landlords would act conscientiously and ethically, properly treating a home where someone died before renting it again. This did not mean the landlord caused the incident. He said they more often encountered tenant suicides that landlords had to handle themselves. Physical cleaning alone could harm both future occupants and the deceased. Making the property safe for later residents was, to him, also meritorious.

Another online claim proposed hiring people to live in stigmatized homes and cleanse them through their yang energy, calling them house-cleansing residents. Two episodes discussed this. One news account described a new Taiwanese occupation, also called trial sleeping, using the resident's body and yang energy to purify a home. Another described a one-year stay paying forty-five thousand monthly with no rent. Conditions reportedly included legitimate employment and labor and health insurance; no pornography-related activity, gambling, drug use, or other illegal conduct inside; over twelve hours at home daily; no visitors in debt; willingness to coexist peacefully with 'special roommates,' meaning ghosts; a triple penalty for early breach; no religious expulsion of roommates; acceptance of odors; and cameras at the entrance and living room.

The two episodes took somewhat different positions. In one, Master Shengyuan personally considered it an amusing invented online story rather than real, saying he had not heard of an actual job like this. He gave several reasons. First, the finances did not fit: forty-five thousand monthly meant 540,000 yearly, whereas having Sheng Zhen Men practitioners address a ghost would cost less than 540,000, or even forty-five thousand, so an owner would not plausibly pay so much. Second, the claim that cleansing restored property value was wrong in his view because Taiwan retained the stigmatized designation through transfers. Third, the conditions were strange: he thought that if the job existed, it might aim to collect breach penalties, since peaceful coexistence and twelve hours daily could be hard to fulfill. Another episode discussed the news while reading it, saying they did not know whether anyone actually did the work, but its appearance in news suggested it might exist, while requiring great caution. They also speculated that the ban on religious expulsion might reflect fear that forceful removal would anger the being and worsen consequences, favoring trial sleeping and yang energy to encourage departure instead.

Neither episode favored the claim that human yang energy could cleanse such homes. Their reasoning was that if strong yang energy kept ghosts away, crowded places would necessarily have none. Yet someone affected can remain so even in a crowd. Powerful ghosts may not fear abundant yang energy either. The many military ghost stories suggested that even strong yang could be outweighed by stronger yin. They also recalled a police officer saying a colleague had suffered an adverse energetic impact while handling something, despite police and soldiers being considered strongly yang. They allowed a theoretical possibility: ten rested, well-fed, energetic people might affect one severely depleted wandering spirit, but not absolutely. Simply standing somewhere does not expel sha; one must know how to use yang energy. Similarly, carrying a sacred statue into an affected place does not make it independently exorcise; energy must be activated. Another episode compared energy to water naturally flowing from high to low: when human energy exceeds a ghost's during prolonged coexistence, it may flow toward the ghost, which absorbs human yang. Master Shengyuan therefore considered the occupation fanciful. Anyone attempting it would need a sufficient destiny pattern, yang strength, or energy, otherwise the outcome would be unfavorable.

Another question was whether one resident's uneventful year proves a home clean. Both episodes rejected that inference. Without religious treatment or guiding the deceased away, peaceful occupancy leaves the being there afterward, so actual cleansing is unknown. Master Shengyuan said your safe year with a ghost does not guarantee the next resident's safety. If it has not left, what ensures the following occupant will be fine? Strong fortune and energy might sustain you, but if the influence weakens your fortune, you could lose more. They also noted that sometimes the problem is not a complete soul but sha energy. Then peaceful coexistence is not the issue; energetic impact is, and sending one person in to absorb it all is not a solution.

The idea was said to come from Japan. The two episodes described Japanese films differently. One said a film depicted a former stigmatized home being cleansed by an occupant's yang energy. Another said the film introduction they had seen involved people with spiritual powers performing purification and deliverance, not merely sleeping there; Taiwan may have learned only half. Either way, not everyone can do this work. The program compared it to funeral work, which some may require a particular destiny pattern to bear, while others experience worsening fortune. Anyone considering it should think carefully, not gamble with their life, and exercise real caution. Their recommendation for the property itself remained to find someone genuinely able to handle it.